Sliding Mode Control with Application to Fault-Tolerant Control: Assessment and Open Problems

This paper is prepared within a collaboration between the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, which Mexican research institute that manages on sliding-mode control theory, and ARIA team of Intégration du Matériau au Système Lab., French group engages model-based fault diagnosis fault-tolerant theories. The reviews application sliding mode techniques to tolerant provides perspectives leading posing some open problems. Operating principles, definitions basic concepts are recalled along with objectives design procedures. evolution technique through five generations (as classified by Fridman, Moreno co-workers) reviewed. Their respective procedures, limitations, robustness properties also highlighted. controllers discussed. focus problems judged commonly be overlooked. Some applications in real-world systems presented.